"Today's massacre is Mariupol. They are just shooting
people. They shot 12 cops that would not take part and about 18 (number on the
fly right now). They are using rpgs, tanks and mounted guns. It's still going
on. In Slavyansk they just shot a 12-year-old twice for wearing a St George
ribbon [marking support for Russian-speaking Ukrainians]." message
from George Eliason, to me on May 9th
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The conservative newspaper Kyiv Post headlines, also on 9 May 2014, "Ten People Injured Brought to Mariupol Hospital," and reports that, "Ten people with gunshot wounds have been hospitalized in Mariupol, where shooting continues since morning, local mass media outlet reported. ... According to the information of the media outlet, 'representatives of the Donetsk People's Republic have seized a tank at the crossing of Lenin and Torhova [Streets].'"
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The same day, the same newspaper banners, "Avakov Says 21 dead in Mariupol After Clashes Between Police and Separatists," and reports: "At least 21 people died in clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast, according to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. He said that some 60 'terrorists' with automatic weapons attacked the city police headquarters earlier today and attempted to take over the building 'without any preliminary demands.'
'There was a fight in the building, which turned into a full-scale military clash after reinforcements arrived from the police and Omega unit of the National Guard,' Avakov wrote on his Facebook page. He said 20 separatists died and four were arrested on the separatist side, and only one dead on the government side." So, according to the central government official Avakov, some "60 'terrorists' with automatic weapons" who were "separatists" had fought against Avakov's forces, and "20 separatists died," while there was "only one dead on the government side," even though they had been fighting "some 60 'terrorists' with automatic weapons." Who, then, were really the 'terrorists' here? The Ukrainian central government is having trouble lying: they're not as skilled at it as their sponsors inside the U.S. White House and State Department are: they need lots of professional training.
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Radio Liberty headlines, also on May 9th, "Heavy Clashes In Mariupol As Ukrainian Security Forces Target Separatists," and reports not just Mariupol, but that:
"In separatist-controlled Luhansk, veterans rallied beneath flags of the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic." Moreover, "In Odesa, a crowd of some 70 pro-Russian separatists marched to the trade union building to lay wreaths at a makeshift memorial to the dozens of people who were killed in a fire there during clashes with government supporters last week."
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On May 7th, Kyiv Post bannered, "Donetsk: Eastern Ukraine descends into chaos, lawlessness," and reported that men in the east were secretly forming self-defense forces and "are armed with everything from wooden clubs and daggers to double-barreled hunting rifles and Kalashnikovs." Another story in the same paper bannered "Ukrainians form militias to defend nation against chaos," and reported that, at the same time, "Andriy Tarasenko, a high-ranking member of nationalist group Pravy Sektor (Right Sector), told the Kyiv Post that its military wing is cooperating with authorities on forming partisan units." In other words: this is going to be a war between, on the one side, Russian-speaking Ukrainians armed with hunting rifles; and, on the other side, Ukrainian Nazis armed by the U.S. Then, a third story in that same day's edition of that same paper was headlined, "Odessa: Who is to blame for 46 Odessa deaths?" It reported that, "Despite rumors [which were being spread by Kiev's central government] that there were Russian citizens among the dead, all the identified victims turned out to be from Odessa." (The central government pretends that their enemy is Russia, not the majority of residents in the eastern half of Ukraine, even though that's what they're actually attacking.)
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On May 5th, Reuters had bannered "Ukraine Moves Forces to Odessa, Helicopter Downed in East," and reported that, "The violence in Odessa marked a watershed for Ukraine." It certainly did. The myth that the Obama Administration is on the side of democrats in Ukraine is now ended forever.
That "violence in Odessa" had occurred on May 2nd. That's when neo-Nazis, called "Right Sector" or "Pravy Sektor," were sent in by the Kiev central government (the government that the U.S. installed to run Ukraine), to do what the local government officials in Odessa had refused to do, which was to kill all of the people who were occupying that city's Trade Unions Building, where the workers were overwhelmingly sympathetic to the people who opposed Ukraine's central government and thus didn't resist this occupation of their building. The building's occupiers also set up tents in front of the building, from which they distributed political literature that was unfavorable to the central government in Kiev.
The central government ordered the local Odessa police to assist the Pravy Sektor people in this killing operation. At the start of that operation, a large number of the local police force publicly threw down their shields and walked off, very publicly resigning from the police force.
All of this -- the invasion of the Trade Unions Building, the throwing-down of shields, and the massacre of the people inside the building -- is shown in cellphone videos that were posted to the Internet and youtube on May 2nd, as these events were unfolding. Those videos are shown here. The entire massacre is shown there, from start to finish. That report opens with an introduction describing it:
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